Restless in sleep country : imagination and the cultural politics of sleep / Paul Huebener.
| Author/creator | Huebener, Paul author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | JSTOR |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Welcome to Sleep Country -- The Poetics of Sleep -- Fictions of Sleep -- Entering Sleep Mode -- Sleeping in the Anthropocene. |
| Abstract | "Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power. In Restless in Sleep Country, Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with issues of colonialism, homelessness, consumer culture, technology and privacy, the exploitation of labour, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it almost entirely evades direct experience, sleep is the subject of a variety of potent narratives, each of which can serve to clarify and shape its role in our lives. In Canada, cultural visions of slumber circulate through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us how to develop a critical literacy of sleep. Lying down and closing our eyes is an act that carries surprisingly high stakes, going beyond individual sleep troubles. Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a crucial site of inequity, struggle, and gratification."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Huebener, Paul. Restless in sleep country. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024 0228020395 9780228020394 |
| ISBN | 9780228020400 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0228020409 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9780228020417 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0228020417 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Stock number | 22573/cats15021354 JSTOR |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |